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John Rosselli: Letters to him from Cambridge historians and social scientists
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9314
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Cambridge historians and political scientists. The correspondents are Sir Ernest Barker, Sir Denis W. Brogan, Sir Herbert Butterfield, Denis Mack Smith, and George M. Trevelyan.
Dates:
1948-1976
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John Rowe: Notebook
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8849
Scope and Contents
Pocket book, 'Riders' British Merlin: bedekt with many delightful varieties, and useful verities.. made and compiled for his country's benefit, by Cardanus Riders, London', 1701, calf bound. The notebook contains mostly notes on religious works, running from the back, but also a few pages of personal and family notes, expenses, distances from Durham of towns to London, and legal notes.
Dates:
1701
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John S. Udal: Antiquarian and genealogical letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8855
Scope and Contents
'Autograph letters upon general antiquarian & literary subjects'. There are 77 letters to John Symonds Udal, arranged alphabetically by author, on antiquarian, genealogical and heraldic subjects, and folklore. These include many letters on Udal's work on monumental inscriptions in St Kitts and Antigua, and colonial families of British origin (especially for Burke's Colonial gentry). There are also letters from the editors of Notes and queries. Udal's bookplate is inside the front...
Dates:
1877-1916
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John Sanders: Diary 1 August - 21 October 1712
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7491
Scope and Contents
Typed copy of an account of the marriage of Dorothy Trotman, daughter of Samuel Trotman of Siston Court, to her cousin Samuel Trotman of Bucknell Manor.
Dates:
1950 (circa)
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John Scarth: Letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7084
Scope and Contents
Typescript and manuscript letters, mainly from China.
Dates:
1847- 1858
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John Scott Lennox Gilmour: Correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8638
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers relating to philosophy, taxonomy and other subjects; material relating to the Rationalist Press Association Ltd, Cambridge Humanists and Hock Club; typescripts of Gilmour's lectures, including the Sandars Lectures; and a box of correspondence regarding 'Deme terminology etc.'
Dates:
1900-1986 (Circa)
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John Seymour Benson Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364
Scope and Contents
Letters, diaries and photographs.
Dates:
1928 - 1973
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John Shaw: Diaries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10065
Scope and Contents
Some as Cambridge undergraduate
Dates:
1860-1861
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John Smart: Letters from North America
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8663-8664
Scope and Contents
Letters from John Smart in America to his mother, pasted into scrapbooks with additional material, including postcards, photographs, newscuttings and printed items, with comments and explanations by Smart.
Dates:
1932-1953
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John Smyth: Notebook
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2640
Scope and Contents
Compiled while an undergraduate of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Includes (fos 19-28) notes on moral philosophy and (fos 33-108) a digest of the Cartesian system entitled 'Physica Incipientium sive Principia Cartesiana Tyronum Captibus Accommodata'. There are other copies at MSS Dd.6.46, Dd.12.33 and Add.3307. The first of these has the additional title 'Contracta Renati Des Cartesii Feltoneana', which seems to imply the authorship of one Felton, possibly John Felton (d. 1667),...
Dates:
1681
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John Spencer: De Legibus Hebraeorum
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2610
Scope and Contents
Collection of material for a second edition. Not used without alteration in edition of 1727. Preceded by: draft power of attorney granted by the University of Cambridge to Thomas Sherlock, bishop of London, to receive the MS, 7 Jan. 1716 (extracted from Adv.a.44.12 ); extract from will of Thomas Tenison, archbishop of Canterbury, with letter from Edward Tenison to Daniel Waterland, 27 Dec. 1715.
Dates:
1690 (Circa)
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John Sperling: Visitation of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3426
Scope and Contents
Description and blazon of coats of arms in Cambridge churches and colleges, on the conduit in the market place, and in the University Library. Autograph. pp. 243-63: indexes. There are some incomplete additions at pp. 265-73. pp. 274-312: blank. Sperling's bookplate inside front cover.
Dates:
1860
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John Sperling: Visitation of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3427
Scope and Contents
A visitation of Arms on Monuments, Stained Glass etc. in the County of Cambridge. p. ii: author's notes; p. iii: indexes; p. 1: description and blazon of arms by parishes. pp. xxvii, 283: blank. Sperling's bookplate inside front cover.
Dates:
1856-1860
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John Stopford: Arteries of the Pons and the Medulla, proof copy
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9617
Scope and Contents
By Stopford, J. S. B. MD, Lecturer in Anatomy at the University of Manchester. Heavily annotated.
Dates:
c. 1916
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John Strutt, 3rd Lord Rayleigh: Sound detection papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8243
Scope and Contents
Papers sent to Lord Rayleigh regarding sound detection in water. 1. R.A.S. Paget, Board of Invention and Research, letter to Rayleigh, 6 October 1915, 1 page, enclosing no. 2. 2. Sir Ernest Rutherford, Manchester University, 'Report on methods of collection of sound from water and the determination of the direction of sound', 30 September 1915, 11 pages. 3. R.A.S. Paget, letter to Rayleigh, 25 October 1915, 2 pages, enclosing no. 4. 4. A. Mallock, 'Experiments on the determination of the...
Dates:
1915-1916
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John Strype: Compositions in prose and verse, 'The Thankful Samaritan' (sermon on Luke xvii. 16), epitaph for James Bonnell
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.59a
Scope and Contents
Compositions completed at St. Paul's School and at Cambridge, c. 1660-2. Incomplete copy of 'The Thankful Samaritan', c. 1710.
Dates:
1660-1710 (Circa)
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John Strype: Correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.1-10
Scope and Contents
Includes letters on ecclesiastical affairs in the mid- and late-sixteenth century, transcripts of Edwardian and Elizabethan documents and copies of material relating the the diocese of Chester and Lincoln.
Dates:
1643-1737
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John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute: Account Book and Letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9399
Scope and Contents
Personal accounts of the Earl of Bute with James and Thomas Coutts.
Dates:
1764-1791
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John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute: Travel Journal and Essay on Travel Writing
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8826
Scope and Contents
The volume comprises a prefatory essay [1787] on travel-writing addressed by Bute to his son Charles, who accompanied him on his 1768 journey, 38 pages; an essay written in Italy, 1770, at the request of John Symonds (Regius Professor of Modern History, 1771), setting out the form in which Symonds should cast for publication material assembled in five years' travel in Italy, 72 pages; notes by Bute of a journey to Barèges, Pyrenees, in 1768, 180 pages; and a loose leaf with a list of places...
Dates:
1768-1787 (Circa)
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John Taylor: Vindication of Demosthenes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5941
Scope and Contents
32 folios: (fo. i) notes in later hands; (fo. 1) text, beginning 'Sr You may remember the other day', and ending 'the disgrace of both, Eloquence&honesty'.
Dates:
1733
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John Theodore Dodd: Scrapbook
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8803
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook is concerned principally with Dodd's uncle, Edward Dodd, and his work on Convocation. It includes a photograph of a portrait of the Revd John Dodd (b. 1762); reviews of J. Theodore Dodd, Convocation and Edward Dodd's share in its revival, 1932; letters, including drafts by Dodd on destitution.Dodd in preparation for this book, 1932; and a draft article by Edward The volume also contains pamphlets printed by Dodd's grandfather, the Revd Joseph Dodd, some in the form of poems and...
Dates:
1932 (Circa)
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John Walker: Commonplace book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6867
Scope and Contents
168 folios. There are copies of letters between G. Northey, 'SD', Henry Lewis, J. Walker, J. Watson, Robert Paget, Henry Bridon, Robert Paman, William Perkins, J. Houghton, Michael Matthewisew, Matthew Thoris, T. Normanton, and Timothy Adamson. There is an index at p. 227. On page 1 is '191', encircled.
Dates:
1635-1655 (Circa)
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John Ward: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6157
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of John Ward, including letters from W.E. Gladstone; Charles, 2nd Viscount Canning; Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston; and Sir William Hutt.
Dates:
1815-1885
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John Watson: Commonplace book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.24
Scope and Contents
Includes an alphabetical index (pp. vii-xx) and a list of scriptural references pp. 621-2. Also notes from Stow's Chronicle. p. iii: 'Jo. Watson Cant. Martii 20 1644/5 prt 4s.' Leaves have been removed prior to pagination.
Dates:
1645
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John Whiteside: Philosophical Lectures
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6301
Scope and Contents
'A Course of Philosophical Lectures by Tho. Whiteside A.M', 183 folios. The lectures are on mechanics. No Thomas Whiteside appears among the published lists of graduates of any university in the British Isles. This is evidently a mistake for John Whiteside (i.e. Tho. for Jho), who was giving such lectures in the early 18th century (see R.T. Gunther, Early science in Oxford, Vol. I). On fo. 1: 'Jno. Browne'. On the front cover are the words 'Mr. Browne', and on the back cover what appears to...
Dates:
c.1710
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